RRI Sports Club: Athletics
Later this week, Romanias capital city Bucharest will be playing host to the final leg of the National Indoor Athletics Championships.
Florin Orban, 06.02.2013, 14:44
Two stages of the championships have been held so far, and in some of the events the Romanians’ results exceeded everyone’s expectations.
On January the 18th, Marian Oprea, the hop, step and jump Olympic vice champion in Athens, secured his comeback to competition, after a long absence. His result in the aforementioned competition was a jump of 16 meters and 80 centimeters. In the high jump event, Mihai Donisan equaled his personal record, with a jump of 2 meters and 20 centimeters.
One week later, Marian Oprea succeeded a jump of 17 meters and 17 centimeters, which is the world’ s best indoor performance so far. In the womens version of the hop, step and jump event, Cristina Bujin compelled recognition with a jump of 14 metes and 24 centimeters. Cristina is thus 4th- placed in the event’s world classification, following three athletes from Russia.
On January the 25th, Marian Donisan came on the runner-up position in the high jump competition in Dresden, with a jump of 2 meters and 26 centimeters, being outperformed by the Russian Serghei Mudrov, who succeeded a jump of 2 meters and 29 centimeters. With his jump of 2 meters and 30 centimeters on January the 18th, Donisan is 2nd-placed in the European high-jump classification, being outclassed only by the Russian Alexei Dmitrik, who this past Sunday in Amstadt managed a jump of 2 meters and 36 centimeters.
This coming weekend’s competition in Bucharest is also important for the final lineup teams that will represent Romania at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, to be held in Goteborg, Sweden, between March the 1stand the 3rd.
